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Shameless plug: I'm building an alternative to Sonos focused on managing audio streams on your home network. It's a software and a controller webapp to broadcas

Shameless plug: I'm building an alternative to Sonos focused on managing audio streams on your home network. It's a software and a controller webapp to broadcast synchronized audio on any number of Windows / MacOS / Linux / Chromecast / Airplay speakers / Web pages / Philips Hue (light synchronized to the audio). It's available on https://soundsync.app/ https://soundsync.app/ and the sources are on Github: https://github.com/geekuillaume/soundsync https://github.com/geekuillaume/soundsync

tmikaeld 6y ago
Really well done and a fair license too. Thanks for sharing!
bambax 6y ago
Looks very good!!
lawn 6y ago
I was wondering what I should replace our sonos with. This looks quite interesting, thank you.
kingosticks 6y ago
I like the inclusion of synchronising browser playback also, that's something beyond what snapcast offers. And it seems to be based on webRTC, is that right? Any pointers for integration with a gstreamer-based source?
- badaix 6y ago
  Snapcast actually has synchronous browser playback. Since version 0.21 WebSocket streaming clients are supported: https://github.com/badaix/snapcast/releases/tag/v0.21.0 https://github.com/badaix/snapcast/releases/tag/v0.21.0 and is shipped with SnapWeb https://github.com/badaix/snapweb https://github.com/badaix/snapweb, that seems to get merged into Iris also.
  - kingosticks 6y ago
    Oh right, sorry! I'll look again. Thanks for your great work.
- geekuillaume 6y ago
  All the communication stack is based on WebRTC. I made this decision to centralize the command and audio communication methods and also to easily support web targets. For Gstreamer, it should be possible to use the same method as for the Librespot (Spotify) and Shairport (Airplay source) intergration: capturing the stdout of a program. I didn't test it yet but there is the `! filesink location=/dev/stdout` option to do just that. I might also add a way to read on a named pipe (which should be easy to do) if its needed.
crooked-v 6y ago
This reminds me that I'd really love to find something that can take advantage of the implicit capability of Dolby Atmos to use a nigh-arbitrary arrangement of various speakers as a unified soundscape.
- sp332 6y ago
  I thought only the big theater version took arbitrary speaker positions, and the home theater version used premixed channels. But now I can't remember where I read that, so I could be wrong.
  - chipotle_coyote 6y ago
    It doesn't look like that's actually the case, as Dolby's promo page for "Dolby Atmos for the home" calls out having "up to 128 simultaneous independent audio objects in a mix": https://professional.dolby.com/tv/home/dolby-atmos/ https://professional.dolby.com/tv/home/dolby-atmos/ I think most home theater systems end up mixing down to Dolby surround channels practice, of course. My receiver supports Atmos, but I still only have five speakers. :)
  - kmanlives 6y ago
    My Atmos receiver required calibration of the speaker placement from multiple locations within my listening area. I'm running a 7.1.4 setup (7 surrounds, 1 subwoofer, and 4 overhead channels). I've done a lot of reading about Atmos as well; I'm fairly certain it isn't premixed channels. My ears also agree - Atmos feels incredibly immersive.
xpe 6y ago
Could you comment on if SoundSync uses https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Sound_Control https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Sound_Control ?
- twalla 6y ago
  OSC is oriented towards sending parameter and control information to things like synthesizers and stage lighting... sort of a fancier MIDI or DMX. This project appears to be targeted at synchronizing and routing streaming audio inputs and outputs. You can think of OSC as sheet music and this project as a home theater/hifi receiver.
archon810 6y ago
Is it possible to support Sonos as an output as well? My ultimate goal is to be able to use Hue Sync for Windows for Hue music beat, but play the audio through Sonos. Haven't found anything to be able to do that yet.
- geekuillaume 6y ago
  You can use the Airplay output integration of Soundsync to send your music to your Sonos speakers. Soundsync keep track of each output latency and correct for it to keep all output synchronized.
tommit 6y ago
Is it possible to use it with Apple Music?
- geekuillaume 6y ago
  You can use Airplay to stream to Soundsync but there is not native Apple Music integration.
gingerlime 6y ago
Thank you, Guillaume! I added a link to Soundsync on the post.

tmikaeld 6y ago

Really well done and a fair license too. Thanks for sharing!

bambax 6y ago

Looks very good!!

lawn 6y ago

I was wondering what I should replace our sonos with. This looks quite interesting, thank you.

kingosticks 6y ago

I like the inclusion of synchronising browser playback also, that's something beyond what snapcast offers. And it seems to be based on webRTC, is that right? Any pointers for integration with a gstreamer-based source?

badaix 6y ago
Snapcast actually has synchronous browser playback. Since version 0.21 WebSocket streaming clients are supported: https://github.com/badaix/snapcast/releases/tag/v0.21.0 https://github.com/badaix/snapcast/releases/tag/v0.21.0 and is shipped with SnapWeb https://github.com/badaix/snapweb https://github.com/badaix/snapweb, that seems to get merged into Iris also.
- kingosticks 6y ago
  Oh right, sorry! I'll look again. Thanks for your great work.
geekuillaume 6y ago
All the communication stack is based on WebRTC. I made this decision to centralize the command and audio communication methods and also to easily support web targets. For Gstreamer, it should be possible to use the same method as for the Librespot (Spotify) and Shairport (Airplay source) intergration: capturing the stdout of a program. I didn't test it yet but there is the `! filesink location=/dev/stdout` option to do just that. I might also add a way to read on a named pipe (which should be easy to do) if its needed.

crooked-v 6y ago

This reminds me that I'd really love to find something that can take advantage of the implicit capability of Dolby Atmos to use a nigh-arbitrary arrangement of various speakers as a unified soundscape.

sp332 6y ago
I thought only the big theater version took arbitrary speaker positions, and the home theater version used premixed channels. But now I can't remember where I read that, so I could be wrong.
- chipotle_coyote 6y ago
  It doesn't look like that's actually the case, as Dolby's promo page for "Dolby Atmos for the home" calls out having "up to 128 simultaneous independent audio objects in a mix": https://professional.dolby.com/tv/home/dolby-atmos/ https://professional.dolby.com/tv/home/dolby-atmos/ I think most home theater systems end up mixing down to Dolby surround channels practice, of course. My receiver supports Atmos, but I still only have five speakers. :)
- kmanlives 6y ago
  My Atmos receiver required calibration of the speaker placement from multiple locations within my listening area. I'm running a 7.1.4 setup (7 surrounds, 1 subwoofer, and 4 overhead channels). I've done a lot of reading about Atmos as well; I'm fairly certain it isn't premixed channels. My ears also agree - Atmos feels incredibly immersive.

xpe 6y ago

Could you comment on if SoundSync uses https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Sound_Control https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Sound_Control ?

twalla 6y ago
OSC is oriented towards sending parameter and control information to things like synthesizers and stage lighting... sort of a fancier MIDI or DMX. This project appears to be targeted at synchronizing and routing streaming audio inputs and outputs. You can think of OSC as sheet music and this project as a home theater/hifi receiver.

archon810 6y ago

Is it possible to support Sonos as an output as well? My ultimate goal is to be able to use Hue Sync for Windows for Hue music beat, but play the audio through Sonos. Haven't found anything to be able to do that yet.

geekuillaume 6y ago
You can use the Airplay output integration of Soundsync to send your music to your Sonos speakers. Soundsync keep track of each output latency and correct for it to keep all output synchronized.

tommit 6y ago

Is it possible to use it with Apple Music?

geekuillaume 6y ago
You can use Airplay to stream to Soundsync but there is not native Apple Music integration.

gingerlime 6y ago

Thank you, Guillaume! I added a link to Soundsync on the post.